Dr. Parviz Dabir-Alai

ECONOMIST

Welcome to my website!

Here you will read about the many different aspects of my career. Starting with the most recent first, I have recently switched to my new role as an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Richmond University in London. Many years ago I worked at Tulane University in New Orleans (USA), and some years later at the University of the West Indies, at their St. Augustine campus (Trinidad & Tobago).

Nowadays I spend most of my working hours as an independent consultant. My interest in this area started nearly 30 years ago and since those early days I have built up a significant portfolio of work. Brief and anonymised information on this appears on these pages.

My other academic involvements have been as follows:

Visiting Professor at Skidmore College at Saratoga Springs (US); Research Associate at STICERD, LSE (UK); Visiting Professor at the Delhi School of Economics (India). I have also spent a number of weeks at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and shorter visits at the Universities of Western Cape and Pretoria. I have enjoyed spells of university related and consulting work in Belgium, the Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Finland, Greece, Italy, elsewhere in India, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Suriname, St. Lucia and Turkey amongst others.

I feel privileged in that my work has allowed me to work with extraordinary people. Over the years many of these individuals have become close friends and associates. Their names, and my associations with many of them, are buried amongst material shared on this site.

Further, I am a former Dean of the School of Business & Economics at Richmond University. In that role I led a team of 30+ talented academics on multiple sites. That, plus program monitoring, development and promotion took up the bulk of my time as Dean. In the following short recruitment clip I talk about some of my ideas on the value and purpose of pursuing an undergraduate degree. To see that press here.

Notable amongst other work I have done is my consulting engagements. The largest and most significant of these was the project I worked on for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Engineering Institute (at the University of the West Indies) over a two year period. This project required me, and others with whom I worked, to examine the macroeconomic conditions relating to 10 CARICOM countries for which the financing of large infrastructure projects was being considered. This project, referred to at the time as the Caribbean Regional Infrastructure Study Project (or CRISP), was a multi-billion-dollar project financed by the OECD.

More detail on the above, and some current work appears under the tab on 'Research & Consulting' on this site.

As important as all of the above, and on a very personal note, I am an obsessive supporter of Arsenal Football Club and hold a season ticket that brings me untold joy, most weeks of the year. Curiously, for some, I also follow Brentford Football Club but from a time long before they climbed into the English Premier League!

To get in touch please use the 'Contact' page on this site. I am also on LinkedIn, Twitter (@ProfDabirAlai) and Mastodon (@ProfDabirAlai@mas.to).

Parviz Dabir-Alai, 2020 ©